{"id":27789,"date":"2016-08-14T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27789"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:56:27","slug":"cheers-to-being-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/cheers-to-being-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"cheers to being sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sick for a week<\/p>\n<p>from Prague with love<\/p>\n<p>the bug in my stomach<\/p>\n<p>is such a needy<\/p>\n<p>little thug<\/p>\n<p>crackers and ginger ale<\/p>\n<p>have been my friend<\/p>\n<p>yet I&#8217;ve been dehydrated<\/p>\n<p>and exhausted<\/p>\n<p>with no sight in end<\/p>\n<p>so I took to my bed<\/p>\n<p>since Monday I&#8217;ve been<\/p>\n<p>and I started my first<\/p>\n<p>eight marathon hours<\/p>\n<p>totally getting it in<\/p>\n<p>but I wanted to take<\/p>\n<p>a nap, because I was tired<\/p>\n<p>now I&#8217;m up every hour since 154a<\/p>\n<p>booted and wired<\/p>\n<p>trying to talk myself back to sleep<\/p>\n<p>look at all the prompts I&#8217;m missing<\/p>\n<p>and then counting sheep<\/p>\n<p>the REM sleep I&#8217;ve been wishing<\/p>\n<p>for and yet I can&#8217;t sleep because<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m missing out on poems that I could write<\/p>\n<p>so before I head off to church<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to play catch up to what<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve missed, and write and write and write<\/p>\n<p>is that alright?<\/p>\n<p>I pray that that&#8217;s alright<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FJ original 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sick for a week from Prague with love the bug in my stomach is such a needy little thug crackers and ginger ale have been my friend yet I&#8217;ve been dehydrated and exhausted with no sight in end so I took to my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27810,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27789\/revisions\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}